Movies: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  • 1974
    La Paloma

    La Paloma (1974)

    La Paloma

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    Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dying, but soon she is well. She believes her husband's love has cured her, but her efforts to love hi...

    La Paloma
  • 1979
    Bourbon Street Blues

    Bourbon Street Blues (1979)

    Bourbon Street Blues

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    An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It depicts the conflict between a dreamy, delusional heroine and her brusque, practical lan...

    Bourbon Street Blues
  • 2012
    Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun

    Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun (2012)

    Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun

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    A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun"....

    Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
  • 1971
    Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8

    Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8 (1971)

    Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8

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    About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970....

    Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
  • 1972
    Bremen Freedom

    Bremen Freedom (1972)

    Bremen Freedom

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    A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She def...

    Bremen Freedom
  • 1968
    The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp

    The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp (1968)

    The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp

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    Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Str...

    The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
  • 1981
    Theater in Trance

    Theater in Trance (1981)

    Theater in Trance

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    Rainer Werner Fassbinder visits for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their own visions of a new theater. Framed by Fassbinder's reading of one of the famous essays on theater: Ant...

    Theater in Trance
  • 2011
    My Name Is Not Ali

    My Name Is Not Ali (2011)

    My Name Is Not Ali

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    Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through interviews with his companions and family members as well as archive material. With openness and slight nai...

    My Name Is Not Ali
  • 1970
    End of the Commune?

    End of the Commune? (1970)

    End of the Commune?

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    "End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of the actors he was going to use in his m...

    End of the Commune?
  • 1970
    The Niklashausen Journey

    The Niklashausen Journey (1970)

    The Niklashausen Journey

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    Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Bla...

    The Niklashausen Journey
  • 1969
    Al Capone im deutschen Wald

    Al Capone im deutschen Wald (1969)

    Al Capone im deutschen Wald

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    Al Capone im deutschen Wald
  • 1978
    Little Godard

    Little Godard (1978)

    Little Godard

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    The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to ra...

    Little Godard
  • 1976
    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

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    BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures....

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
  • 2002
    Fassbinder in Hollywood

    Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002)

    Fassbinder in Hollywood

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    Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio films of the 1950s and the convention of melodrama (the link most often mentioned is Douglas Sirk)....

    Fassbinder in Hollywood
  • 1966
    This Night

    This Night (1966)

    This Night

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    The first R.W. Fassbinder film project. 8 mm color. Considered lost....

    This Night
  • 2015
    Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

    Fassbinder: Love Without Demands (2015)

    Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

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    Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982 left behind a vacuum in European filmmaking that has yet to be filled, as well as a body of unique, multi...

    Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
  • 1976
    The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me

    The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me (1976)

    The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me

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    The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
  • 1987
    Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk

    Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk (1987)

    Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk

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    Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES....

    Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
  • 1982
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works (1982)

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works

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    This portrait, drawn by Wolf Gremm, shows Rainer Werner Fassbinder both as an actor - taking the leading role in the film "KAMIKAZE 1989", also directed by Wolf Gremm - and as a director working on "QUERELLE", his adaption of the work by Jean Genet....

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
  • 2012
    Garbage, the City and Death

    Garbage, the City and Death (2012)

    Garbage, the City and Death

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    Romi (Gabriela Mícová), a prostitute, is anything but successful at her job: she is of far too gentle a nature for her clients. The more obstinately she is pushed to the streets by her pimp Franz (Stanislav Majer), the closer she is to a complete bre...

    Garbage, the City and Death